LINDBERGH’S AIRPLANE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 7

LINDBERGH’S AIRPLANE

TYRE EQUIPMENT STANDS STRAIN After adding 7,000 miles more to his travels. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his partner, “Th e Spirit of St. Louis,” have returned to the soil of his home land. The terrific punishment suffered by the “Spirit of St. Louis” tyres in the take-offs and landings has proved the stamina and dependability of their construction. Beginning the long journey through the air in San Diego, California, Colonel Lindbergh and his machine have covered some 33,000 miles of the earth’s surface. Time and again his plane, heavily loaded for long air journeys, has careened and bounced over run-ways and landing fields and just as often as th© urge to travel has sent the “Spirit of St. Louis” on its good-will missions the original Silvertown tyres have safely and dependably performed their part in sustaining plane and occupant during those critical periods of take-off and landing. Colonel Lindbergh’s return marks another epochal chapter in the history of this intrepid and remakarble aviator. It has been announced that the “Spirit of St. Louis” with its original equipment will soon be placed in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington alongside of other historymaking exhibits, that the ship which blazed the air channel across the Atlantic b‘e preserved for posterity.